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<h1>Healthcare worker in Scotland diagnosed with Ebola</h1>
    
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<span class="focusParagraph"><p><span class="articleLocation">LONDON</span> (Reuters) - A healthcare worker has been diagnosed with Ebola a day after flying home to Glasgow from Sierra Leone, the Scottish government said on Monday.</p>
</span><span id="midArticle_0"></span><p>The patient is being treated in isolation at Glasgow's Gartnavel Hospital, having flown back to Scotland's largest city late on Sunday on a British Airways flight via Casablanca in Morocco and London's Heathrow. </p><span id="midArticle_1"></span><p>"All possible contacts with the patient are now being investigated and anyone deemed to be at risk will be contacted and closely monitored," the Scottish government said in a statement.</p><span id="midArticle_2"></span><p>"However, having been diagnosed in the very early stages of the illness, the risk to others is considered extremely low."</p><span id="midArticle_3"></span><p>The patient, whom BBC sources described as a female aid worker, will be transferred to a high-level isolation unit in the Royal Free hospital in London.</p><span id="midArticle_4"></span><p>British Prime Minister Cameron has been informed, the Scottish government added.</p><span id="midArticle_5"></span><p>In August, another British aid worker, William Pooley, contracted the disease after working Sierra Leone. He was discharged in September after treatment at the Royal Free hospital.</p><span id="midArticle_6"></span><p>With more than 9,000 cases, Sierra Leone now accounts for nearly half of the known cases of Ebola in this year's West African outbreak, the worst ever. Neighbouring Liberia and Guinea have also been badly hit.</p><span id="midArticle_7"></span><p>The World Health Organization on Monday said the number of people infected by Ebola in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea -- the worst affected by the outbreak -- has passed 20,000, with more than 7,842 deaths in the epidemic so far.</p><span id="midArticle_8"></span><p></p><span id="midArticle_9"></span><p></p><span id="midArticle_10"></span><p> (Reporting by <a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/search/journalist.php?edition=uk&n=andybruce&">Andy Bruce</a> in London and Ankur Banerjee in Bengaluru; Editing by Joyjeet Das)</p><span id="midArticle_11"></span></span>

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